Talk With Me Baby to Enhance Early Home Language Environment During Well-Child Care Visits for Rural and Underserved Infants

What this Trial Is About

Researchers are investigating whether the Talk With Me Baby (TWMB) program can improve the home-language environment for families with infants aged two to six months, especially those at risk. The study focuses on whether this program, delivered during routine well-child visits, can increase the time caregivers spend talking to their infants. It aims to understand how enhancing caregiver-infant communication during early development impacts language and behavior in infants. The study involves embedding the TWMB program into standard well-child care visits. Participants will attend up to four consecutive well-child checkups within a 12-month period, during which primary care providers will deliver the TWMB language-promotion intervention alongside usual care. Caregivers will receive this program at each visit to support language development in their infants. During the study, caregivers will record their conversations with their infants before and after receiving the TWMB intervention across four sessions. Researchers will assess changes in language promotion behaviors using the Language Environment Analysis (LENA) system, focusing on conversational turn counts and adult word counts over a 12-month period. The involvement includes attending well-child visits, participating in the intervention, and completing language recordings to monitor progress and outcomes.

Talk With Me Baby to Enhance the Early Home Language Environment